Joseph D.
McBride, Esq.

Crim­i­nal De­fense & Civ­il Lit­i­ga­tion

Joseph D. McBride leads The McBride Law Firm PLLC, a New York lit­i­ga­tion firm pro­vid­ing be­spoke rep­re­sen­ta­tion in crim­i­nal de­fense, civ­il lit­i­ga­tion, and in­ves­ti­ga­tions. For each en­gage­ment, he draws from a pool of at­tor­neys to as­sem­ble a team suit­ed to the case’s le­gal is­sues, com­plex­i­ty, and ju­ris­dic­tion.

A Team Built for Each Matter

The firm’s mod­el be­gins with the re­quire­ments of the case. McBride se­lects and di­rects coun­sel ac­cord­ing to the ex­pe­ri­ence and ca­pa­bil­i­ties the rep­re­sen­ta­tion calls for. This al­lows the team to be struc­tured around the client’s mat­ter, in­clud­ing co­or­di­na­tion across ju­ris­dic­tions where nec­es­sary.

Professional Background

McBride worked in the Le­gal Aid So­ci­ety’s Man­hat­tan Crim­i­nal De­fense Prac­tice be­fore en­ter­ing pri­vate prac­tice. His ear­li­er le­gal ex­pe­ri­ence in­clud­ed the In­no­cence Project. His work in crim­i­nal de­fense in­forms the firm’s ap­proach to al­le­ga­tions, ev­i­dence, and court­room ad­vo­ca­cy.

Selected Experience

His fed­er­al crim­i­nal rep­re­sen­ta­tion has in­clud­ed more than 25 Jan­u­ary 6 de­fen­dants, in­clud­ing in high-pro­file mat­ters. His civ­il prac­tice has in­clud­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tion of An­drew and Tris­tan Tate in the Palm Beach defama­tion ac­tion filed in 2023. He has also act­ed as coun­sel and spokesper­son in na­tion­al­ly re­port­ed cross-bor­der mat­ters.

These en­gage­ments in­volve dif­fer­ent courts, le­gal stan­dards, and client in­ter­ests. They il­lus­trate the range of the prac­tice; the un­der­ly­ing records and dat­ed de­scrip­tions ap­pear in Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Work.

Congressional Representation

McBride has rep­re­sent­ed Alex Bruesewitz and oth­er clients be­fore the House Se­lect Com­mit­tee in­ves­ti­gat­ing Jan­u­ary 6. His con­gres­sion­al work has also de­vel­oped pro­fes­sion­al re­la­tion­ships on Capi­tol Hill, ex­tend­ing the firm’s ex­pe­ri­ence be­yond court pro­ceed­ings to gov­ern­ment in­quiries.

His cus­tody and de­ten­tion work has in­volved jails and pris­ons in New York, Wash­ing­ton, D.C., Vir­ginia, and Flor­i­da, in­clud­ing mat­ters con­cern­ing the Fed­er­al Bu­reau of Pris­ons, war­dens, and con­di­tions of con­fine­ment.

The Practice

McBride rep­re­sents clients in fed­er­al and New York crim­i­nal mat­ters and in sub­stan­tial civ­il dis­putes. Re­lat­ed work in­cludes in­ves­ti­ga­tions, defama­tion and rep­u­ta­tion lit­i­ga­tion, and U.S. ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings re­quir­ing co­or­di­na­tion with coun­sel in oth­er ju­ris­dic­tions.

The firm’s New York of­fice serves clients in the city and on Long Is­land. Rep­re­sen­ta­tion else­where de­pends on the ju­ris­dic­tion and the ap­pli­ca­ble ad­mis­sion re­quire­ments.